School Reform Essay

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Kevin U
LEAD 615/ 9.03.10
Dr. Pots

“School Reform: Raising Student Achievement by Focusing on Intermediate and Middle School Literacy”

The current trend around the country is a push for early education with a focus on literacy. According to the publication “Every Child Reading: An Action Plan” (Learning First Alliance, 1998) literacy success should be formed by the time a student reaches the first grade. This trend is appropriate in helping to close the gap in student achievement in urban schools across the nation (Learning First Alliance, 1998). The detriment of this strategy is that there are generations of children who have already moved beyond this age group. These children ...view middle of the document...

” (Middle Ground, 2007) It is apparent that middle school educators no longer see the necessity of reading instruction which a dire consequence to the students. The Reading Specialist in elementary schools must be certain to expand their services to the intermediate grades. The exact same teaching strategies which are utilized in the primary grades for quality Reading instruction (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) must be continuously taught in the upper grades. A Reading Specialist would serve to model effective instruction, to assist in creating powerful learning activities, to present research-based strategies for below proficient as well as advanced children, to ensure various methods of assessment tools are employed and to engage in dialogue and observation in order to achieve optimal success for every classroom educator regardless of the subject being taught. An effective and researched system that might be included is the Simultaneous Multisensory Institute of Language Arts (SMILA) method. This method was developed by an educator to assist...

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